Homer Grunn: Kor’kokshi Dance (Rain Ceremony), Zuni Impressions, Op. 27 No. IV (1917)

American composer HOMER GRUNN (1880-1944) encountered Native American music during visits to New Mexico from Los Angeles, where he lived after 1910. He used the melodies he collected in ballets, songs and piano pieces, harmonizing them in Romantic style. Of the "Zuni Impressions - Indian Suite for the Pianoforte", Op. 27 (1917) he stated that No. IV Kor’kokshi Dance (Rain Ceremony), a direct transcription of a Zuni melody, describes one of the most beautiful of the Zuni ceremonies. The whole spectacle begins with the entrance of clowns and involves dancers in colorful costume whose singing is accompanied by tortoise and gourd rattles, coyote yells and wind effects made by the clowns.
Duncan J. MacMillan, pianist, from "Piano Music of The American Indianists", a recital presented at Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater, FL Nov. 21, 2015.

[@sondbjo]

I like this one a lot :) It reminds me a little of Sun Dance by Lily Strickland. Did you find the score on imslp?

[@drduncanjmacmillan]

Yes, this score and a variety of others from the American Indianists are now on IMSLP. There are also similar scores by Farwell, Loomis, Troyer etc available in the Library of Congress digital archives.